Preparing unit floors at The Maltings, Station Road
Offices, studios and units, including Allen House Business Centre, now fill the listed malting buildings of The Maltings. When a unit there is refitted, lifting the old carpet, vinyl or paint can reveal an original floor that is uneven and coated with whatever earlier occupiers left.
Grinding is often the first step. Spinning diamond segments abrade the floor a little at a time, removing adhesive, paint and thin coatings and bringing down ridges, trowel marks and raised edges. The result is a clean, open surface that a primer can grip, ready for the levelling compound over a ground floor that the refit needs. Before cutting, we confirm the base is concrete or screed, since grinding is for those materials and historic floors of other kinds may need protecting rather than cutting.
That carries weight in a listed building, where the owner should confirm what may be cut before work is booked, and we keep to that scope.
Dust control is fixed on every job. The dust from cutting concrete and screed carries silica that is harmful to breathe, so the grinder runs connected to an extractor, the work area is sheeted off and shared corridors are protected.
We do not lay resin or polished concrete, and we do not hire out grinders. If a refit needs larger areas cleared or heavy coatings removed, shot blasting is the alternative, under our floor preparation service.
Sawbridgeworth extensions, garages and lifted carpets
Semi-detached houses make up 28% of Sawbridgeworth homes. On any house, though, a kitchen extension means a new slab meeting an old floor, and the two seldom finish at precisely the same height. A small lip at the join can be ground back so the floor runs through, then a thin skim of compound finishes it.
Grinding cannot fix everything. It removes high spots but leaves low areas where they are, so a floor that slopes or dips across the room needs grinding at the high points followed by levelling or a new screed. Cutting too deep into a screed can also take it below its minimum depth, so we measure before we start.
Garages being converted often have oil, paint or sealer on the slab, which would stop new screed or compound from bonding, and grinding clears them. When old carpet or vinyl is lifted in an older house, a sound, thin adhesive may be left under latex, but loose or soft glue is ground off. If the concrete beneath turns out cracked or broken, see concrete floor repair first. Bishop's Stortford is covered separately on our Bishop's Stortford floor grinding page.
How we price floor grinding in Sawbridgeworth
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and what has to come off. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who grinds your concrete floor in Sawbridgeworth
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Concrete Floor Grinding from Slough to Sawbridgeworth
On the map, Sawbridgeworth sits east-north-east of Slough, about 39.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM21), next to Harlow (3.8 miles), Bishop's Stortford (4.1 miles), Hoddesdon (7.9 miles) and Ware (8 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.